The sector is held by American Airlines and Southwest Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
PHX Phoenix to RDU Raleigh
Phoenix Sky Harbor, the United States, to Raleigh Durham, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 3,037 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 09m
- Door to door
- 10h 54m
What PHX to RDU looks like
The PHX to RDU sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Phoenix PHX to Raleigh RDU is a medium haul sector of 3,037 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,037 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 09m.
Phoenix PHX is a major hub in the network held here, 172 scheduled destinations and 603.4 departures a day. Raleigh RDU has 152 destinations and 243.8 departures a day.
Raleigh runs 2 hours ahead of Phoenix in January and 3 hours ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits inside the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 13 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on PHX to RDU from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHX to RDU | 1.71 | 12 | American Airlines, Southwest Airlines |
| RDU to PHX | 1.71 | 12 | American Airlines, Southwest Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 23.9 departures a week on PHX to RDU, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 4h 09m block time on PHX to RDU. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to PHX | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At PHX before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| PHX to RDU in the air, estimated | 249 min | 8h 39m |
| Formalities at RDU | 90 min | 10h 09m |
| Delivery run in Raleigh | 45 min | 10h 54m |
| Door to door | 654 min | 10h 54m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for PHX to RDU is 10h 54m.
A courier who leaves Phoenix at 09:00 local is on the ground in Raleigh at about 15:09 local and at the door by 17:24 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Raleigh, the last useful departure from Phoenix is around 09:36 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 44 of them join PHX to RDU.
| Connecting at | PHX to hub, flights a day | Hub to RDU, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City MCI | 6.71 | 1.29 | 3,129 | 6h 00m |
| St Louis STL | 6.29 | 2.29 | 3,099 | 6h 12m |
| New Orleans MSY | 1.14 | 0.86 | 3,342 | 6h 16m |
| Charlotte CLT | 8.14 | 10 | 3,057 | 6h 26m |
| Houston IAH | 7.86 | 4.29 | 3,296 | 6h 27m |
| Indianapolis IND | 3.57 | 1.29 | 3,176 | 6h 27m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at PHX in the afternoon actually flies on.
44 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Kansas City MCI, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through MCI the routing covers 3,129 km against the 3,037 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 00m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 51m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, St Louis STL at 6h 12m and New Orleans MSY at 6h 16m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Raleigh, Charlotte CLT is 209 km away by great circle and carries 219 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Phoenix to Raleigh yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for PHX to RDU in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The PHX airport entry
- The RDU airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- The written lane, Phoenix to Taipei
- The route calculator
More pairs through PHX and RDU: Phoenix to Seattle, Phoenix to San Francisco, Atlanta to Phoenix, Los Angeles to Phoenix, Phoenix to Chicago, London to Phoenix, Phoenix to Detroit, Phoenix to Boston.